How about Disable Seat Belt Beep?

First off, my wife just hates that seat belt beep. That's reason enough. We're all for wearing our seat belts, but the beeping is toxic.

I come out of sams club with a couple gallons of milk, want to crawl 150 feet over to the gas pumps, it beeps me to death.

I guess putting on my seat belt solves the problem, but that's not the question. The question is... can it be disabled like the Reverse one can?


Another one that I don't like is when I'm driving into the parking lot at work, I am 100 feet from my spot, I take off the seat belt at 4 mph, this thing starts beeping. I stop, it's still beeping... I press park.. it's still beeping for the seat belt.

Alright already, I wear my seat belt, but could really live without the beeping. Does anyone know how to make it stop?

As posted elsewhere in here, you can disable the seat belt beap using the same method as the reverse beep (which you indicated you know how to do), except replace the "shift into reverse" portion with buckling/unbuckling the seatbelt.

And then some drunk, or some guy on his cell phone, plows into you at 30 mph in a Suburban while you're creeping along at 10 mph in the parking lot.

Why not just do as I do: buckle up before starting the car, and unbuckle after shutting off the car!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daronspicher @ Apr 14 2006, 09:39 PM) [snapback]239999[/snapback]</div>

I have an 06 Prius and both the seatbelt and reverse beep hack has worked like champ. no more beeps.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Apr 15 2006, 06:03 AM) [snapback]240125[/snapback]</div>

Thank goodness there are a few people with some common sense. When I was working in the hospital in Fresno we had this teenager who did the thing we all do when we are parallel parking...she took off her seat belt. She hit the gas harder than expected and hit the car in front of her. She had to hold herself up in the position with which she hit the windshield. It took a couple hundred stitches and multiple surgeries to even get her to looking half way normal not to mention the absolute horror of hanging in the windshield unable to move because you are afraid to rip off more of your face.

Quit wasting so much energy trying to disable something that is made that way for a reason! Buckle up for your own health and safety and for your families peace of mind.

I have always put on my seat belt except when moving the car to wash it, move it around when not in the general public, and sometimes when I was a kid. I will let my car bitch at the passengers until they put their seat belts on because it better safe than sorry. I wont even move the car until every buckles up. But I hard have an passengers anyway. i'm soooooooo lonely in my car. On the plus side I get better fuel mileage because of it.

I noticed that when I place 15 lbs of stuff on the front passenger seat, the seatbelt beep goes on.. Maybe it's my prius's way of telling me "hey get your crap off my seats!"

Why do people equate turning of the seat belt beep with not buckling up? The blinking seat belt warning light still functions after the beep is silenced.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MoreMiles @ May 30 2006, 10:55 PM) [snapback]263193[/snapback]</div>

Does it still beep six or so times at start up, then quits?

I've tried everything to get it to quit beeping at all, but I still get the seatbelt beeps at start up. It's not bad, but I'd like to know if it's possible to get it stop beepng entirely.

Come on guys. the seat belt beeping is ridiculous. What if you're just pulling the car around the block or moving cars in the driveway? It drives me nuts. Until now I didn't know that you could disable it like the reverse beep, I will do it immediately.

What if a Suburban nails you a 30MPH when you're going 4 MPH into a parking space? What if a flaming meteor hits you while youre parking? Or the crust of the earth opens up and swallows the car whole? Sometimes its just "your time". I'm sorry about the issue with the paralell parking, but you've got to admit, thats pretty damned unlikely, she had to hit the gas pretty hard to get forces like that, and how close was she to the windshield when it happened?

And yes, we wear our seatbelts but why Toyota thinks Prius owners need the car to tell them how to do everything when none of their other cars do is beyond me.

It does stop beeping after about a minute. I have moved the car a couple of times without buckling up and have found it annoying but Im not going to disable it because it might remind me that I am not buckled up if I forget in the future. For those short periods that Im not buckled up Im just going to ignore the beep and enjoy the car.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Erik @ Jun 1 2006, 01:23 AM) [snapback]263884[/snapback]</div>

Actually, the Prius seat belt warnings are the most polite and refined of any car I have owned.

If I want to move the car a short distance in a parking lot situation it allows a little time before it starts. Then it beeps slowly as a polite reminder. If I ignore it, it insists with double rep rate for a brief time, after all, I'm breaking the law in NJ. But then it becomes convinced I really know my seat belt is off and intend to continue that way, so it shuts up, and silently flashes "don't say I didn't warn you."

Like everything else in the Prius, it's so refined.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rudiger @ May 31 2006, 09:00 PM) [snapback]263844[/snapback]</div>

Yes you can turn the seat belt beep off.

Seatbelt Beep On/Off:
1. Power on the car to IG-ON or READY. IG-ON will do for this purpose.
2. Using the Trip/ODO button, set the Trip/ODO display to ODO (not Trip A or Trip B)
3. Power off the car.
4. Now power the car to READY (brake on). This is required so that step 6 works correctly.
5. Within 6 seconds of powering on, press and hold the Trip/ODO button for 10 seconds or more.
6. WHILE STILL HOLDING ODO *after* the 10 seconds, buckle then unbuckle the appropriate seatbelt
while continuing to depress the Trip/ODO button. Now release the Trip/ODO button.
7. If the last step was successful, "b on" or "b off" should be displayed in the location where the Trip Odometer or Odometer is normally displayed. "b on" is beep on, and "b off" is beep off.
8. Press Trip/ODO to toggle the mode.
9. Now power the car off to exit the toggle mode.
10. Power the car on to READY and confirm the seatbelt beep status
The beep should not be audible if "b off" was selected, and should be audible if "b on" was selected..

I always wear my seatbelt, but I want the beep disabled because I sometimes place heavy objects on the passenger seat. Those objects don't need to be buckled in.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gnagel @ Jul 2 2006, 05:12 PM) [snapback]280302[/snapback]</div>

You may want to reconsider - a friend of ours was recently stopped a light in her Rav, she was rearended from behind and her bowling ball flew forward and (luckily) decapitated the passenger seat - a heavy load placed in the passenger seat could be lethal in an accident.

To all - my 2006 only started beeping when the speed jumps above about 10 mph - this means I can move the car a short distance without beeping.

Cheers,

When I buy a car, I dont want it to police me. My car my rights! Thanks for the disable beep info. Anyone know of a global document on how to disable beeps -- seatbelt, backup, doors?

Easy Fix, just buckle up!

I am alive today because I had one on in 1956.

Sorry but driving is a privilege not a right, that is why some people, those who have no licence are not permitted to do it. When you drive you have an obligation to the community to obey the laws and one of those laws is you must wear your seatbelt. You say it only costs you if you crash I bet, but the community would pay if you were removed from it due to death or a burden upon it because of an injury which incapacitates you. If seat-belts were only about thwarting Darwin's theory I would say go for it, leave it off, but because of the cost to others around you buckle the bloody belt. It isn't hard and 99% of your friends and neighbours do it for you.

The sanctimonious-ness in this thread is astounding...

First off, I want to say that I always buckle my belt. Now, with that out of the way, I am alive and walking today because I didn't have my belt on when I was 16. Here are the details: I was driving my dad's '78 Honda Civic CVCC and rolled it(according to police) end-over-end 1-3 times and side-to-side 3-4 times. I didn't have the shoulder belts on, the window was down, and the doors weren't latched. I walked away from the crash without a scratch. The roof was caved in right above where my head would have been had the belt been holding me in place. While cleaning out the car the next day, I had to scoot down in the seat until my head was nearly level with the top of the steering wheel. I will post pictures after I get them scanned. I guess it irritates me when I hear people talking as if wearing your seatbelt will always save you from harm which is the way it always seems to come off by the gung-ho supporters. I once heard a state trooper(with 30+ years experience) say, when asked about seatbelt effectiveness, that he found that they only worked,as advertised by most proponents, at best 60% of the time. The single biggest thing that would reduce injury would be by requiring better driver training and stricter enforcement of existing laws but that's probably not likely to happen anytime soon. Again, I do wear my belt but admittedly mostly because it's the law where I live.